SPACE EXPLORATION MERIT BADGE

Welcome to the Home Page for Space Exploration. This Web site provides
you with all the information you need to complete the Boy Scout Space
Exploration Merit Badge, along with links to more information that is either
useful or way fun.

On this page you will find the requirements for the merit badge, listed
below. For each requirement there are links to my pages, or NASA's pages
or others, that provide you with the information you need to complete the
requirement.

This merit badge is too cool for words. Launching your own rocket, one
that you built yourself, is so much fun you may become addicted. There is a
lot of research to do - and the more you learn the more interesting it
gets. This web site will make it much easier to get started, and once you're
started you won't want to stop.

Build, launch, and recover a model rocket. Make a second launch to accomplish a specific objective.
(Rocket must be built to meet the safety code of the National Association of Rocketry.) Identify and
explain the following rocket parts.

Discuss with your counselor an unmanned space exploration mission
and an early manned mission. Tell about each mission's major discoveries,
its importance, and what we learned from it about the planets, moons, or
regions of space explored.

Using magazine photographs, news clippings, and electronic articles
(such as from the Internet), make a scrapbook about a current planetary
mission.

Design an unmanned mission to another planet or moon that will return
samples of its surface to Earth. Name the planet or moon your spacecraft
will visit. Show how your design will cope with the conditions of the
planet's or moon's environment.

Discuss with your counselor two possible careers in space exploration
that interest you. Find out the qualifications, education, and preparation
required and discuss the major responsibilities of those positions.

Thanks for Visiting!

Questions

Your questions and comments regarding this page are welcome.
You can e-mail Randy Culp for inquiries,
suggestions, new ideas or just to chat.
And -- hey! -- we gotta be careful out there. With all the wild viruses flying
around, you will need to put more than "Hi!" in the subject line or you will look
like a virus. Put something like "Question on Space Exploration" so I know
you're for real.
Troop 93, Potowatami Council, New Berlin, Wisconsin
Tripoli #6926
Updated 31 March 2010